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Cigarette smoke contains a number of highly unstable free radicals and these free radicals enhance reactive oxygen species (ROS) and reactive nitrogen species (RNS) production leading to oxidative/nitrosative stress. Increased oxidative/nitrosative stress plays an important role in the onset of various vascular diseases. The aim of this study is to evaluate smoking-induced nitrosative and oxidative...